If you will believe me, he came through very well on the day of the examination.

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If you don't believe me about this, maybe you will consider the words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of the great readers of Plato's Republic.

如果你们不信，也许可以考虑,鲁索的话语，他是最重要的柏拉图《理想国》读者之一。

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Maybe you'll now believe Hobbes if you don't believe me. So the state of nature, it's a state of insecurity, it's a state of conflict.

如果你不相信我的话，你也不一定相信霍布斯,所以自然状态,是一种不安全的状态，是一种矛盾的状态。

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